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Leave your ego, play your music and love the people.
– Luther Allison
Ingo Offermanns studied painting at the Akademie der bildenden Künste München, Munich, from 1994 to 1998, and completed his Master of Fine Arts degree at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnheim in 2001. Since 2000, he has worked as an independent designer specialising in books and printing for a number of museums and publishing houses in Germany and abroad. Before taking up his post at the HFBK Hamburg in 2006, Ingo Offermanns lectured at a number of institutions, including the ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten in Arnheim (the Netherlands) and at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (USA). He is developing his research project Inter Graphic View in collaboration with the graphic design class at the HFBK Hamburg as part of the Hamburg Open Online University (HOOU). Since June 2019 he is vice president of the HFBK.
Editorial Design
Tobias Frühauf, Friedrich von Borries, Philipp Wolpert, Klimaerlösung. Ein Passionsspiel-Splatter, Merve Verlag, 2026
Eberhard Havekost. Benutzeroberflächen. Arbeiten 1994–2019, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2026
Carl Grossberg, Ausst.-Katalog Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, Hirmer Verlag, 2026
Markt der neuen Wirksamkeit, Klubhaus, 2025/26
Lucio Fontana: Expectation, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Klubhaus website, Klubhaus, Cologne
Ewald Mataré – Cosmos, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
The Discovery of Form – Robert Adams, Josef Albers, Zander Gallery, Cologne
Planned Chance, Klubhaus, Cologne
Exhibition Identities (Visual Identities)
Something that flees the hand, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2026
Richard Paul Lohse, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2026
Markus Karstieß, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, 2025/26
Robert Smithson, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2025/26
More than Ever! The Collection, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, 2025/26
Jubiläum des Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, 2025/26
Market of New Effectiveness, Klubhaus, Cologne
Lucio Fontana: Expectation, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Museum A–Z, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Maurice de Vlaminck – Rebel of Modernism, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Ewald Mataré – Cosmos, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Barry Le Va, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
Color Everywhere, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
Exhibition Participation
Adler, Orden, Wahlurne Redesigning Democratic Representation, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, 2026/27
Research Projects
Inter Graphic View – a research project by Ingo Offermanns, in collaboration with the Graphic Design class at HFBK Hamburg and the Hamburg Online University (HOOU)
Latest Publication
Ingo Offermanns (ed.), Graphic Design Is Not Innocent, 2022, Valiz in collaboration with HFBK Hamburg
